Louisville leaders offered little in the way of new ideas Wednesday after a woman was shot and killed while walking a child to a school bus stop in the Russell neighborhood.

Louisville police received a call of shots fired near West Chestnut and 11th Streets around 8 a.m. Wednesday. They said the woman was taken to University of Louisville Hospital downtown, where she was pronounced dead. The child she was with was uninjured.

The shooting occurred less than a week after a 15-year-old allegedly fired multiple rounds in the same area, near Central High School and Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary, sending students running for cover. No one was injured in that incident.

The shootings were reminiscent of the killing of 16-year-old Tyree Smith in 2023, who was shot at a bus stop about o

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